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History department Head Tutor Joyce E. Chaplin sent an e-mail to department faculty and teaching fellows last month suggesting they take the trauma of Sept. 11 into account when grading last semester’s work...
...Chaplin said she felt the need to issue the e-mail to compensate for recent pressure on faculty to review their grading practices...
...Events throughout the fall, starting with September 11, have been distressing for everyone...[and] despite the recent hullabaloo over grade inflation, this is not the semester in which to crack down,” Chaplin wrote in the e-mail...
...response to Chaplin, a senior faculty member sent a dissenting e-mail to the department, expressing sentiments that were shared by some of the faculty...
...taking leave, some instructors with prominent positions and popular courses are also temporarily departing, including College Professor William E. Gienapp, who teaches the popular course “Baseball and American Society,” Professor James T. Kloppenberg, who offers several popular intellectual history courses, Professor Joyce E. Chaplin, the head tutor for the department, and Professor Lisa M. McGirr, who leads “The United States in the 1960s...